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SECTION:
Transnational and National Endeavors in the Ukraine
Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:
Email: Larissa Cybenko (Lvov)
ABSTRACT: The Ukraine has always striven to be free,
wrote Voltaire in 1731 in the History of Karl XII. This
striving runs like a red thread throughout the turbulent history
of the country, which for several centuries was divided among
several rulers. Consequently, cultural endeavors in the Ukraine
were frequently shaped by nationalism. However, as the interpretation
of the history of 20th-century Ukrainian culture proves, the cultural
phenomena produced here were never isolated, but rather cultural
development in the Ukraine proceeded as a process of the continuous
collaboration of different peoples. In this contribution I will
show how transnational and national endeavors influenced the historic
development of Ukrainian culture, what resonance they had on research
into the history and what the contemporary condition of Ukrainian
culture is. Special attention will be paid to the questions of
ethos and national choice.
A native culture, which developed independently among one people
from the beginning to the present, does not exist. The capability
of perceiving cultural influences is the necessary condition of
the cultural development and progress of every people: The
high culture of the Ukrainian people is determined by the fact
that over the course of thousands of years of its prehistory and
historical life it stood under the cultural influences of a number
of peoples of different nationalities, who passed through the
Ukraine, had contacts with the country or bordered it. According
to D. Antonovyc, the historical method is necessary, that is,
one must not research only the culture of the people, but also
the history of its culture.
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